Compare the following situations: 1 - You dial the number of a call center, and the automated system informs you that the estimated waiting time is eight minutes. 2 - You dial the number of a call…

Two Armstrong EKG Readings - A Question Of Provenance [edit]This article has been updated - please see:One Small Step - Two Small Strips ( Or Maybe Three ) I recently posted an article: Neil…

What do science media and politics of 2013 share in common with 2006? Anti-science beliefs among the public? Check.Scientists willing to call them out? Check.Scientists and science media noting the…

Alerted by a link on Real Clear Science, I turned to an article on Slate.com, namely Felony Science Sixteen-year-old Kiera Wilmot’s curiosity was apparently piqued when a friend told her that if you…

Social and evolutionary psychology studies get a large share of media attention despite being primarily based on surveys of psychology undergraduate students. It was only a matter of time before…

How To Build A Perpetual Magnet Woo Generator     "The general public sees perpetual motion inexactly. Probably they view each machine as a special case. The physicist or engineer, on…

In light of some recent posts that have introduced an increasingly diverse set of viewpoint through music links, I thought it would be interesting to see what kind of music surfaces.  So, I don…

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is distancing itself from the the American Psychiatric Association and its upcoming Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). While…

Is Google On The Level? I have often complained about the way that Google search behaves.  For instance, try looking up the capacitance of a lead-acid battery.  Good luck with that - Google…

"A detailed study of four-jet hadronic events at LEP 1.5 has been reported by the ALEPH collaboration. From selected four-jet events, the invariant masses of jet pairs are computed, and out of the…

This is another of my poems for children of all ages. It is very fortunate for me that the grammar police have never been issued with tazers.....Paddles At The Beachside The rains is gonethe sand are…

Last weekend I participated in a chess tournament in Mogliano. This year the event was not as strong a tournament as this used to be - only 24 players, two of them international masters.  Anyway…

There a lot of rules governing how you name new species. But that doesn't mean that fun things can't still get through.This is Kootenichela deppi, a new 540 million year old arthropod from a deposit…

What Is Exogenous Semiotic Entropy ? The phrase exogenous semiotic entropy is from a recent "peer reviewed" "paper".  It looks like something that came out of a buzzphrase generator which was…

If you read THE WIRED WORLD IN 2013 Annual Trend Report you may have seen my article predicting we would make a big advancement on the road to growing one of the Big 5 organs from a person's own stem…

Friends! This is a desperate cry for help. No, I don't think that the famous Fermi paradox is the actual coverup. But the certain chain of events would definitely bring this idea to any unbiased…

Trigemina, a company focused on creating non-narcotic pain relief drugs, is enrolling patients in a Phase II clinical trial of inhaled oxytocin to treat chronic migraine. Trigemina's oxytocin product…

Content Is King Whether writing or making videos, create content that will appeal to your chosen demographic and then make it fun.  Even better: present it in Dave's unique non-scripted overly…

One weekend each April, Duke University Alumni trek hundreds of miles back to Durham, North Carolina to see their former classmates and the changes on campus, and participate in numerous scheduled…

The following is a reply to Patrick Lockerby's "AC, DC: What's The Difference ?" Direct current (DC) In a DC (direct current) circuit where the electricity flows in one direction, we can think of…